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Scottish school chaplain removed after posting Facebook message on homosexuality

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GLASGOW, January 7, 2014  - A Church of Scotland minister has been removed as chaplain from a Glasgow non- denominational school after parents complained about a Facebook post he wrote expounding traditional Christian teaching on homosexuality. In November, Rev. Donald Michael MacInnes, minister of Gairbraid Church in Maryhill , Glasgow, posted his criticism of the Scottish government's decision to support a bill legalizing same-sex "marriage." Rev. Donald Michael MacInnes "We can now expect to see the school curriculum changed to the end that our children will be taught this perversion as if it were a good thing,” he wrote. Glasgow City Council , which oversees Glasgow Gaelic School, announced Jan. 6 th  that the remarks had cost the minister his job. A spokeswoman for the Council said while the minister was entitled to his opinion, “The man is no longer the Chaplain at the school and this decision was taken by the headteacher as soon a...

Scottish Catholic adoption agency threatened with closure over gay adoption

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Another British Catholic adoption agency is being threatened with closure by the government for refusing to toe the government’s line of support for the homosexualist political agenda. St. Margaret ’s Children and Family Care Society, associated with the Catholic archdiocese of Glasgow, has lost a ruling in its argument with the Scottish government’s charity regulator, which is demanding the charity drop its policy of adopting only to mothers and fathers who have been married for at least two years.  The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has found St. Margaret’s in violation of the Equality Act 2010 , saying that its policy "discriminated unlawfully" against same-sex couples. St. Margaret’s is remaining defiant, however, saying that they will fight the decision. The Christian Institute campaign group quoted a St. Margaret’s board member saying,  “The ultimate irony is that apparently in the name of tolerance, societies such as Saint Marg...

Archbishop-elect: ‘I could see myself going to jail’ for standing up against same-sex ‘marriage’

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GLASGOW, July 25, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – One day after his appointment was announced, the new archbishop-elect of Glasgow has already been attacked in the media for his opposition to same-sex “marriage.” On the day the appointment was made public, Archbishop -elect Philip Tartaglia , a long-time and highly vocal opponent  of the homosexualist political agenda, told journalists that he believed he could end up in prison for his views. “I could see myself going to jail possibly at some point over the next 15 years—if God spares me—if I speak out,” Archbishop-elect Tartaglia, 61, told STV News on Tuesday. Catholic News Agency quoted him saying, “I am deeply concerned that today, defending the traditional meaning of marriage is almost considered ‘hate speech’ and branded intolerant. Such a response is undemocratic, closes debate and is highly manipulative.” Within only hours of the announcement,  The Scotsman  published a piece accusing Tartaglia of having made “hu...